Plenty of bloggers like to write about their thoughts, their day or the crazy thing that happened to them on the way to the zoo.

But this type of blogging is generally more for fun than for profit.

To make money with your blog, you’ll want to focus on keyword phrases and questions your target audience is actively searching for.

When you help peo...

“Newsjacking” is the act of leveraging breaking news to get traffic to your content.

Let’s say there’s a blackout at a Superbowl, and Oreo immediately tweets out an image of an Oreo cookie in the dark with the words, “You can still dunk in the dark”. Yeah, you remember when that happened, right? It’s an example of newsjacking, and that one tweet (...

How to Transform Your Blog into a Sales Machine

Most business blogs are terrible. They’re used for things like announcements and fluffy content that do nothing to capture leads and make sales.

And if all you want is a place to jot down your thoughts, then skip this article.

But if you want a blog that gets you more leads and more sales with ever...

To stay competitive during the pandemic and beyond, it's important to keep up with emerging content marketing trends and practices. After all, relevant, consistent, and high-quality content can attract new customers while retaining existing ones.

Here are the notable content marketing trends and best practices in 2021 you need to know: 

Sour...

I’m using the word “relevant” here loosely because I don’t know exactly what your goal is with your website. But whether it’s to get subscribers, to inform your readers, to make sales or to drive traffic to offers, none of that will happen if you don’t get awesomely good at these three things we’ll cover.

Most websites don’t work. They’re like out...

Sometimes even small changes can make a big difference in getting traffic through the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS). 

1: Your content doesn’t connect with visitors

Buyers want to be heard, understood, and helped. Most of all, they need to feel they can trust the content on your website, or they will leave.

If your content is nothing but, “...

From what I can see, right now the fastest way to build an audience online is through podcasting.

Podcast audiences are more engaged and loyal than radio listeners or blog readers. Something like 88-90% of podcast listeners listen to the entire show, including advertisements.

More than half the population are listening to podcasts on a regular ba...

Paid advertising is great because once you’ve got ads and a funnel that work, you can turn on the switch anytime you’re willing to spend money to make money.

But content marketing is still important, and some would argue that in the long run it’s far more valuable than paid advertising.

1. When you compare content marketing with paid search, conte
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Here is an idea for you.

If you love to write emails and create products then this is for you. Or, another alternate way is to outsource your email writing and product creation.

But this is so simple and clean, I thought it worth mentioning.

There’s a woman I know who never, ever promotes other people's products to her list. She simply won’t do ...